On July 20, our CEO Doug Erwin provided the lead quote in the lead story on the Marketplace section of The Wall Street Journal. On the heels of Intel’s strongest quarterly results in its 42-year history, WSJ’s Don Clark and Ben Worthen dove deeper into the chip maker’s success. As they were researching for “Spending Soars on Internet’s Plumbing,” they chatted with our CEO about The Planet’s take on the latest technologies.

“We’ve been buying thousands of computers this year,” says Doug Erwin, chief executive of ThePlanet.com Internet Services Inc., a Houston-based company that runs data centers to offer computing services. ThePlanet says it now owns about 50,000 Dell Inc. servers.

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Customers have responded, in many cases paying up for servers with high-end chips that command higher prices. Mr. Erwin of ThePlanet says it moved swiftly this year to Intel’s new technology, saving his company money on power and labor costs and providing greater performance to offer customers at a higher price.

If you didn’t get a chance to read the article when it was published, be sure to check it out when you have a chance. It paints a fantastic picture of the evolving landscape of the web, the need for newer, faster, more efficient technologies, and how companies like Dell, Google, Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett-Packard are dealing with both.

-Kevin

Unrelated: When I played basketball in high school, I made my way into a few newspapers, and my family always managed to save a few copies of each so I could show them off for years to come. That was a local paper. This is the Wall Street Journal. Needless to say, we’ve got a few copies of that issue lying around the office.